BASEBALL'S TWO BEST PITCHERS EACH WIN THEIR LEAGUES UNANIMOUSLY

The Baseball Writers announced the 2026 Cy Youngs on Wednesday night and left absolutely nothing to argue about. Cam Schlittler of the Yankees and Jacob Misiorowski of the Brewers each took all 30 first-place votes. Schlittler's name went public about 30 minutes before Misiorowski's, so he got half an hour as the only unanimous pitcher in baseball. Both won in their second big league season, their first full one. No pitcher has ever won a Cy Young in his debut season, and these two are the sixth and seventh to do it in year two. The last time both leagues went with sophomores was 1985, Dwight Gooden and Bret Saberhagen. Misiorowski went 16-5 with a 1.80 ERA, 252 strikeouts and a 0.80 WHIP in 174 2/3 innings, and his four-seamer averaged 100.6 mph. In September he became the first pitcher to throw 1,000 pitches at 100 mph or harder in a single season. Ballots were due before the playoffs started, so voters did not even get to count the 5 2/3 shutout innings he threw to clinch Milwaukee's first World Series. Schlittler went 14-6 with a league-best 1.95 ERA in 33 starts, third-lowest in Yankees history behind Spud Chandler and Ron Guidry. A year ago he was a 2.96 guy in 14 starts. He is the seventh Yankee to win it, and his takeaway was that the job isn't done yet, which is a polite way to describe watching the other winner ride in a parade.

Why you should give a shit: The two best arms in baseball are 24 and 25 with one full season each, one of them already has a ring, and every front office that passed on them gets to think about that until 2031.